ADVISORS

Eric is an international investor and business builder with over 20 years of global private equity, executive managerial, board & entrepreneurial experience. Eric is Founder & Managing of Global Capital Advisors, a Munich-based investment advisory firm focusing on strategy, M&A, restructuring, innovation and advanced product development. Currently, Eric also serves as Co-Founder & Chairman of the Advisory Board of V-Nova International Ltd., a UK-based firm focusing on advanced video compression and a non-executive director of FastFilmz Ltd. (India), a provider of quality low-bandwidth video-on-demand services in India. A former McKinsey director, Eric is also a director of Celdara Medical, a U.S.-based biotech portfolio.

Chandra is a business and technology leader with over 25 years experience in providing strategic, transformative and innovative solutions to fortune 500 firms. Over the years, he has successfully built and managed large global multi-million dollar software and technology businesses.He founded and managed a business and technology consulting firm and successfully built it to multi-million dollar business within three years of starting the firm with minimal external investments. He has successfully led global teams of technology and business professionals developing a rich understanding of cross-cultural challenges and how to manage them to deliver to a common objective.

Rolf Habbel has almost 30 years of consulting experience and was a Zurich-based Senior Vice President and Sr. Partner of Booz&Co, formerly Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., the global, New York based management consultancy. He served as the Managing Director of Booz Allen Hamilton Europe, as Managing Director of Germany/Switzerland/Austria (GSA) and as member of the Global Supervisory Board.

Ekkehard Franzke is partner at A.T. Kearney and has more than 25 years of consulting and private equity experience.

In his position, Ekkehard is charge of strategy and due diligences as well as of digital transformation, in particular for private equity funds. and has advised on more than 100 transactions with a transaction value beyond € 80 bn. Dr Franzke holds several board seats and graduated in economics with a Ph.D. in econometrics.

Gianni Mion is the Executive Vice-Chairman of Edizione S.r.l. (Holding company of the Benetton Family) and former Managing Director from 1986 through 2013. He is also Chairman of the Board at Fila spA and at Spaces SpA, one of Italy’s first SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Vehicle). In addition, Gianni Mion is managing director of Autogrill SpA, Atlantia SpA, Eurostazioni SpA and Il Gazzettino SpA. He graduated in Economics at Ca`Foscari University and holds a Master's degree Honoris Causa in Banking & Finance released from CUOA.